Author: jcmoritz

I am certain that you have been reading or getting notifications on your mobile devices about the recently discovered security flaw with Intel chips knows as Meltdown. Apple has addressed part of the issue with security updates and is hoping not to decrease performance. The flaw affects all Mac devices except the Apple Watch according the the company.

Hey Folks, I know that you have been hearing tons about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In order for you to fully understand these currencies, you have to get a grip on blockchain. Here’s a great read by Alison DeNisco Rayome. Read more…

Posted by Malwarebytes Labs on October 24th, 2017 – A new strain of ransomware called BadRabbit is spreading through Eastern Europe. Likely created by the same authors as the Petya/Not Petya ransomware outbreak in June, BadRabbit ransomware uses a website to drop a fake Flash update and then drops its payload.

Be careful what you ask for! I always say it and now maybe there is some credence to it. The research team at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research built a “chatbot” that was supposed to learn how to negotiate by observing some human practices. Once researcher realized they weren’t using English, they shut them off. Read more (with video)…

Can you say crazy! I was wondering when this should start happening because it is such a pain to block port 80. Well according to Conner Forrest and TechRepublic, Russian President recently signed a law prohibiting the use of VPNs and even Apple got in the game as well. Read more here…